Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Dowty v. Templeton 9 La. Ann. 549 1854 0 Torts, employment, death of enslaved person Louisiana
Starr v. State 25 Ala. 38 1854 1 Alabama
Augusta Insurance v. Packwood 9 La. Ann. 74 1854 0 Insolvency, debts, property, mortgages, res judicata Louisiana
Pepper v. Dunlap 9 La. Ann. 137 1854 0 Sales, judicial seizure, property, prescription, eviction Louisiana
Bird v. Vail 9 La. Ann. 176 1854 0 Emancipation, successions, wills Louisiana
Gilmore v. Gilmore 9 La. Ann. 197 1854 0 Successions, property, sales, partition Louisiana
Dufief v. Boykin 9 La. Ann. 295 1854 0 Sales, property, judicial seizure, mortgages, possessory rights, eviction Louisiana
Lusk v. Swon 9 La. Ann. 367 1854 0 Runaway enslaved person, contracts, emancipation, sales Louisiana
Stewart v. City of New Orleans 9 La. Ann. 461 1854 0 Police brutality, property, murder of enslaved person, municipal liability Louisiana
De Young v. De Young 9 La. Ann. 545 1854 0 Marital property, debts, promissory notes, fraud Louisiana
Hall v. Hall 11 Tex. 526 1854 0 Mortgage dispute Texas
Weight v. Henderson 12 Tex. 43 1854 0 Trial for the right of property Texas
Woodland v. Wallis 6 Md. 151 1854 0 Maryland
Worthington v. Bullitt 6 Md. 172 1854 0 Maryland
Mitchell v. Mitchell's Lessee 6 Md. 224 1854 0 Maryland
Bennett v. Woolfolk 15 Ga. 213 1854 0 Bill for slave Supreme Court of Georgia
State v. Turner 5 Del. 501 1854 0 Petition for freedom Delaware
Cannon v. Phillips 2 Sneed 185 1854 0 Tennessee
Brock v. Garrett 16 Ga. 487 1854 0 Will and Trust Supreme Court of Georgia
Ezell v. Franklin 2 Sneed 236 1854 0 Tennessee